Apostrophe

Finals are almost over!

I've survived my first semester of college!

I get to go home to see my family in ten days!

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I'm getting married! Whoa! So many wonderful and exciting things!!!

I've just been sitting here thinking, if you asked me five years ago where I thought I would be now, I would definitely not have said here haha! because I could never have guessed that my life would be so blessed. At the age of fourteen, being in 9th grade (the height of my social life), I would have said that five years from then I saw myself at USU studying to be an English teacher, maybe preparing for a mission, working as a receptionist or something in a big corporate office. At that point in my life I was convinced that I would never like guys since they were all dumb and had cooties :P Just as so, I thought I would never get married because guys don't like girls like me. I'm way too picky, I'm not twig thin, and apparently (or so my family tells me) I'm intimidating. I most DEFINITELY never expected myself to end up at BYU of all places, and I could only have dreamed of working at Deseret Book.

I am so grateful that the Lord has blessed me and guided me to where I am now. I don't think there is a better or happier place I could be. Despite my best efforts, I'm at BYU :) and I'm so glad that I am. Deseret Book is fantastic! I've worked there for just over four months now, and I still love it. Tyler and Karen are so amazing to let me live with them, especially with everything they have to deal with now (me being all mushy and everything lol! I'm pretty sure they don't really like seeing me cuddle with my fiancee!) There are no words for how grateful I am for Dustin. It took a lot of hard work to get to where I am, and through most of that journey I somehow felt like I was heading where God wanted me to go, not necessarily anywhere near where I had planned. If I had been stubborn and trusted in my own strength rather than the Lord's, I shudder to think where I would be now. I've been blessed with an amazing life now, and I can glimpse a little bit of the amazing future I have ahead of me. I'm so grateful to be sharing that future with Dustin, and I'm so grateful for the unexpected twists and turns that God graciously guided me through to get me here to be with him.

I am so blessed, and I am so grateful!

(P.S. Just as a side note, for those of you who don't know, Dustin hasn't officially proposed, that will happen in about two weeks, but he already bought the ring, and we've set the date for May 25th 2010 at the Oquirrh Mountain Temple, so, it's about as official as official can get!)